... This chapter addresses the identity of the mysterious narrator of Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It traces Yunior de las Casas’s artistic coming of age, his Künstlerroman, arguing that what emerges in his narrative is an aesthetics of artistic consumption, which reflects Díaz’s...

... life writing healing surrogate family disidentification exile ...

... utopias biography political feminist life writing about political activism ...

... life writing historiography father-daughter relationships “Four Women” “Mississippi Goddam” ...

... This chapter examines the life writings of Nazr Sajjad Hyder that were serialized over a period of twenty-one years from 1942 to 1963 in Tahzib-e Niswan and Ismat . In particular, it demonstrates that instead of producing a single autobiography, the writing of Nazr’s self in public has taken...

... frankness life/death poison alter worlds writing ...

... writers’ collective writing workshop peasant writers everyday life ...

... these dialogues as Native Hawaiian epistemologies. This unique archive showcases a participatory life-writing exchange and the avenues in which trauma itself performs as the dialogic. Through an analysis of the students' life-writing texts, which are direct responses to the narratives of memory, pain, and abuse...

... I look at utopias and their shadows and try to affirm the political life without any illusion that one can know the long future of any political act. Uncertainty always has an autobiography attached. As a young child, I had dyslexia and couldn’t immediately read or write. Perversely, these two...

... If ethnography is the writing of life in its varied worlds, what forms must it take in addressing itself to the escalating and varied forms of mass death? This chapter explores the death of form(s) as an analogue for writing about mass death. It revisits a vexed conjuncture between ethnography...

..., though they are about the same life. Nevertheless, they become the spur for her writing and offer a clue to how she finally resolves her dilemma, in her fiction. Nayantara Sahgal personal/political reveal/conceal relational autobiography This chapter examines the life writings of Nazr...

... Chapter 7 focuses on Jill Johnston’s writing about her personal life, particularly her childhood and her relationship to her mother. queer adolescence mother-daughter relationships Village Voice ...

...? In the tradition of Islamic life writing, can the gap between the miraculous and the mundane be breached to understand the mystical experience charted here as a kind of autobiography? Even from the rationalist’s perspective, should not the life of the imagination still be considered part of the life? Bhakti...

... The brainchild of a Duke English major, the Farendé Writers’ Society brings together aspiring authors from a village in northern Togo with U.S. university students and with a native son whose first novel was published in Paris. The youthful authors write nightly about everyday life...